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Title:The Criminalization of the State in Africa
Authors:Bayart, Jean-FrançoisISNI
Ellis, StephenISNI
Hibou, BéatriceISNI
Year:1999
Pages:126
Language:English
Series:African issues
City of publisher:Oxford
Publisher:Currey
ISBN:0852558139; 0253212863; 0253335248; 0852558120
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
South Africa
Subjects:State
political repression
Abstract:Fraud and smuggling on a major scale, the plundering of natural resources, the privatization of State institutions, the development of an economy of plunder, the growth of private arms - all of these features of public life in Africa suggest that the State itself is becoming a vehicle for organized criminal activity. This book analyses the criminalization of the State in Africa in the following chapters: From kleptocracy to the felonious State? (Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis & Béatrice Hibou) - The 'social capital' of the felonious State (Jean-François Bayart) - The new frontiers of crime in South Africa (Stephen Ellis) - The 'social capital' of the State as an agent of deception (Béatrice Hibou) - Conclusion (Jean-François Bayart).
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